Living at depths of up to 5,000 feet, the Hagfish is one of the strangest creatures in the ocean. And there’s plenty on the list! The Goblin Shark, Sea Spiders, Red-lipped Batfish, and even people swimming during winter! Although it looks like an eel, this fish belongs to the Agnatha species. Terrifying monsters with disk-shaped, suction-cup mouths filled with spiraling rows of teeth!

Hagfish have 2 tongues, 4 hearts, and no eyes or stomach. Like something from another planet! And what sets them apart from anything on this planet, is that they have a skull but no spine! They don’t have bones either. That unique spineless skull is made entirely out of cartilage. But scaleless with skin that seems to fit them like an oversized holiday sweater, it’d be a mistake to think this frail little creature would be an easy dinner.

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It's 66 million years before today - the last days of the Mesozoic era. An asteroid slams into the planet with enormous force. The impact leaves a crater that's more than 100 miles across. The crash sets off a series of natural disasters that erase 80% of life on Earth. It’s the very asteroid that’s going to finish off dinosaurs. All the creatures close enough to see the crash, don't survive for longer than a few seconds - so powerful the hit is.

More than 30,000 objects that are circling Earth these days can potentially strike our planet. NASA considers around 1,500 of them "potentially hazardous." These space rocks are the remains left after the Solar System was formed some 4.6 billion years ago. If one of these objects hits our planet, the consequences will be unpredictable. They can vary from shattered glass and broken windows to all life forms getting wiped off the face of the earth. Unfortunately, in our case, it's likely to be the second option. In 2004, astronomers discovered a huge asteroid nearing Earth...

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Have you ever wondered what our planet will look like in the year 2025? Rising sea levels, extreme weather, and the ocean becoming more and more acidic are just some of the problems people have been dealing with for years. After a powerful tsunami hits the city, people decide to create a self-sufficient, sustainable city beneath the ocean's surface that could withstand any natural disaster. The underwater city would be powered by renewable energy, using tidal power and underwater solar panels. Is this a realistic scenario?

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Do you remember the story of Vesuvius, the super volcano that erased the city of Pompeii? Don't start packing your bags just yet, but it may wake up again and destroy many other towns built near the mountain. To understand what consequences humanity would face if it awakens this time, let's find out what the eruption did two thousand years ago with the ancient city. Let's learn some simple life-saving tips you need to know to survive when it happens again.

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Germs are everywhere, and it's impossible for humans to get rid of them. These tiny creatures train our immune system. We're becoming stronger when our organism constantly faces bacteria and improves its protection skills. But there are some places that germs like more than others: for example, your hotel room. They seem to be so clean, but in some ways, they are more dangerous than a garbage dump.

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It was an epic space explosion that made scientists’ hair stand on end when they discovered it in February 2020! Its size and power are enormous even by cosmic standards… It’d take 2.6 billion years to get to where this explosion occurred in space. And here’s the real kicker: this burst lasted 100 million years! That’s from today’s digital world with smartphones and self-driving cars all the way back to dinosaur times!

So what set off this space boom of epic proportions? A black hole, what else! This monster swallowed so much substance that it choked and shot out a bunch of plasma beams. They cut through space and formed a cosmic wasteland all around the site! It was thought to be the biggest explosion in the universe. But sooner or later, every record gets broken! So, here's a new portion of the most incredible, awe-inspiring, and unbelievable facts about space.

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Yellowstone has the status of an active volcano. And it turns out that a huge area of the Yellowstone National Park, the size of Chicago, is moving. The caldera isn't just going up - it also moves up and down in a breathing motion. Could it mean another imminent super-eruption? The Volcanic Explosivity Index of Yellowstone is 8 out of 10. This number means that if this volcano erupted, it would turn into apocalypse. Let's see what scientists predict with regards to the possibility of the Yellowstone eruption. Are we in for a disaster or we could cool it down?

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